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From: devmorfo@mtu.edu (Evmorfopoulos Dimitris)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
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Date: 29 Dec 1994 11:53:18 -0500
Organization: Michigan Technological University
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muzaffer@smixedsignal.com wrote:

: In article <3d7vel$442@galaxy.ucr.edu>, <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> writes:

: > The day I can telnet in to an NT machine, set the display to my desktop,
: > run excel on the NT machine and have it display on my desktop, THEN you
: > can say that NT runs X! just because you can display the "X" logo on your 
: > NT desktop doesn't mean you are running X!
: > 
: > If you want to dispute some part of what I've said, please do -
: > I'm all ears! But you have to attempt to make sense - don't just
: > wave your hand and say "you don't know what NT can do"...

: Yes, I can dispute what you say. I have a telnet server on one of my machines.
: I got the x11r6 binaries for Windows NT and installed TCP/IP on two NT 
: machines. Now I can telnet to the other machine and type "xclock -display 
: foo2:0.0" and get the output of the clock displayed on foo1 which doesn't have 
: the x11r6 distribution at all.

: So NT RUNS X!!!.

: Anything else ?

: If anyone is interested, I can tell you where to pick up all the pieces to 
: repeat this experiment.

: Muzaffer

	Ok I see that you  have the hots for NT, but you still didn't give an 
answer to this question. Running xclock over the X servers for NT and other 
X capable OS's does not mean that NT runs X. The point is to take a native
NT application and runit over the cable to a remote X-server, not a native 
X application. That I can do with DOS. (realy, it just runs one app at time, 
but it is doable.) So can you run NT's own clock over the cable to my Linux's 
X screen ? If you cannot, NT is not capable of running X. It is simply
pretending to be able to do so. You realy have to attempt to make sence ....

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